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Chevron, with partner Kerr-McGee, has awarded Aker Kvaerner, Inc. the semi submersible hull and mooring system contract for their Blind Faith project in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract has a total…

Samsung Heavy Industries has detected faults that can cause gas leakages in an LNG carrier it has built for the BG Group. However, the company has made it clear that it has…

Bergesen Worldwide Gas ASA (BW Gas) has finalised agreements with Suez LNG Trading SA for two LNG vessels for a period of 20 years. These vessels will be used to transport LNG…

The British Nuclear Group (BNG) has placed an order with the Japanese shipbuilder Mitsui Engineering to design and build a new INF 3 class nuclear waste vessel for the Pacific Nuclear Transport…

ESNAAD, a wholly owned ADNOC principal service company who provide offshore support services to oil operating companies and Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB), one of the major shipbuilding facilities in the region,…

Aker Yards and DOF ASA have agreed to build a platform supply vessel (PSV) worth approximately $33 million. The Aker designed vessel is scheduled for delivery in April 2007 from Aker Yards…

A joint venture between the Sao Paulo boat builder Companhia C?mara Constru?ões Navais and the Russian company ATTK, is going to manufacture WIG (wing in ground effect) craft known as Ekranoplans or…

Vietnamese designers are attending a training course held by Polish experts in advanced shipbuilding technology. The course is held by the Vietnam Ship Buiding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) with assistance from Poland?s Ship…

Taiwan Maritime Transportation has submitted an expression of interest in bidding for the privatization of China Shipbuilding Corporation, the Taiwan government owned shipyard. It is believed that TMT was the only bidder…

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract for the delivery of design and equipment for an oil well intervention vessel that will allow operations previously only done from rigs or platforms. The Norwegian…

Singapore oil rig manufacturer SembCorp Marine has completed the purchase of a Texas-based shipyard in a move expected to boost its presence in the oil-producing US Gulf Coast region. SembCorp Marine said…

China LNG(CLNG), joint venture of Cosco and Chinese government, has decided to order two more 147,000 cbm LNG carriers. However, ship delivery date, shipbuilder, ship price and LNG projects have not yet…

Following the selection of preferential bidders by Korea Gas Corporation to carry 5.5 million tonnes of LNG from 2008, the company has placed newbuilding orders for LNG carriers with local shipbuilders.Korea Line…

Aker Yards has signed a contract worth approximately $100 million to build a Well Intervention Vessel for Island Offshore for delivery in January 2008. Main duties for the new vessel of Rolls…

Verreault Navigation Inc. of Les Méchins, Quebec in Canada, has been awarded a $4.8 million contract to modify and enhance some of the design elements of the ferry Madeleine operated by CTMA…

Fincantieri and Tallink signed a contract to build two new generation, high performance, ice-class cruise ferries, one of which is an option. Tallink, the leading Estonian ferry operators and one of the…

Korean shipbuilder Samsung will build four ice-class 70,000-ton tankers for Russia?s oil major Lukoil to help it export crude from the Arctic to Western markets. Delivery is scheduled for 2008 and will…

Western Ferries, which operates from Dunoon to Gourock, has placed a £500,000 order for a roll on/roll off terminal with Ferguson's yard on the river Clyde in Scotland. The Port Glasgow yard…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said it will bid for Santierul Naval 2 Mai Mangalia, a Romanian government-owned shipyard, to expand capacity in the country."Daewoo Shipbuilding plans to make a bid…

The Joint Iran-India LNG consortium in its first step for LNG export is to place an order for 8 new carriers valued at $1.6billion. Four of the ships will have a capacity…

A South Korean state agency that is jointly selling 51% of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) might reject bids from companies that did not support national interests. Korea Asset Management (KAM),…

Hyundai Heavy Industries has won an order for two 60,000 m3 LPG carriers from Solvang and two 35,000 m3 LPG carriers from Itochu in Japan at the total contract price of $300…